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Geoprocessing Service Restricted to Python Scripts?

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01-04-2017 12:38 PM
LloydBronn
Frequent Contributor

I want to incorporate a geoprocessing service into my web services. Basically I want to click anywhere on a map, and use those lat/lon coordinates as inputs for a Python script. My question is, are geoprocessing tools restricted only to Model Builder and Python scripts? I want to be able to return a chart from this click event. The Python script extracts data from a raster and outputs a csv file. A Visual Basic script then creates a chart in Excel from this csv file. Is it possible to incorporate a VB script into a geoprocessing tool on the server? I've looked at the examples of GP services in the API reference, but I haven't found anything similar to what I want to do. 

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DanPatterson_Retired
MVP Emeritus

If you are using a recent version of arcmap, then you can use matplotlib to do your graphing and csv reading... one less piece of software to work with and it is python-based

LloydBronn
Frequent Contributor

Thanks. Can you point to any examples of this method? Is it something that can be triggered from a click event in the JavaScript API?

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